Виталий Ватуля

Vitaly Vatulya was announced for the Kosovo Philharmonic Orchestra's concert in Sofia on 17 May 2025, in a programme that also carried the name of Besa Llugiqi. The participation was cancelled. Born in Moscow in 1987, Vatulya began his music schooling in Simferopol, finished the college attached to the Schnittke Institute in Moscow with distinction under Yuri Vorontsov, then the Gnessin Academy under Margarita Shaposhnikova, its postgraduate course in 2014 and the Amsterdam Conservatory under Arno Bornkamp in 2017. Between 2003 and 2005 he worked at the European Saxophone University in Gap. His prizes run from second at the Classical Heritage competition in Moscow in 2004 and the grand prix in Kyiv in 2005 to first at Togliatti in 2006, victory at the tenth Delphic Games of Russia in 2011 and at the Marco Fiorindo competition in Italy in 2015. He has belonged to the Gnessin saxophone quartet since 2005, teaches, and has recorded two albums.